Suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman shared her taste for the high life with Michel Bittan (below), friends say.

The flame-haired beauty accused of being a Russian spy likes her men as old-school as her politics.

Anna Chapman - a 28-year-old Stalingrad stunner busted this week - was dating a 60-year-old divorced dad who shared her taste for the high life, friends said.

Chapman told pals she was seeing Michel Bittan, a New Jersey businessman with deep pockets and influential friends.

"He was older, but he clearly loves surrounding himself with beautiful women, mostly Russian, and since the spring Anna was in his inner circle," said a fellow Russian party girl.

The two met more than a year ago at the Russian hangout Mari Vanna near Gramercy Park.

Things heated up in the past two months, when he showed up more often at her Manhattan apartment.

"I didn't think it was exclusive on his part - he really loves hot women - but she enjoyed hanging with him," said a friend of Bittan.

"He moves in circles, knows celebrity chefs, meets politicians."

Suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman shared her taste for the high life with Michel Bittan (below), friends say.

"He's a very wealthy and successful guy. He made his money in jeans, real estate, pharmaceuticals, restaurants," the friend said. "He's a nice, cool, family oriented man who loves women," the friend said.

A call to Bittan's business, the Bittan Group, in Englewood, N.J., was not returned.

The owner of Club 201 and Solaia in Englewood, Bittan is described on his Web sites as an "international jet-setter."

That's just the kind of business success story that Chapman - the founder of a Russian-language real estate Web site - told friends she was trying to achieve as she hobnobbed at exclusive clubs and wore designer clothes.

"She knew how to work it," said a male admirer who knew Chapman in London, where she married and divorced the wealthy son of a retail executive before moving to America.

"Smart, beautiful, and discreet. She was seen as someone who could handle whatever was thrown her way," the admirer said.

Suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman shared her taste for the high life with Michel Bittan (below), friends say.

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Including espionage, prosecutors say.

The feds said Chapman and a network of deep undercover spies were told to target sources who could give them access to the country's highest circles.